Present Moment Quotes - Page 24

• The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Dream, Riches, Infinite

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.81, World Wisdom, Inc

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• To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Beauty, Future, Mean

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Moments, Theatrical, Profession

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1932). “Me and Mine: A Medley of Thoughts and Memories”

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• The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us become more obvious. We are able to see life unfolding from BOTH ENDS AT ONCE, coming into the present moment. But until we have got to a certain point of realization, this is not possible, because everything is still seen as a series of apparent causes and effects.

  Reshad Feild

  Able, Causes, Realization

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• You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

  Jonas Mekas

  Focus, Cameras, Video

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• The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!

  Louise Hay

  Past, Long, Negative

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Challenges, Action, Moments

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Differences, Smartphones

  "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart

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• I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

  Richey Edwards

  Regret, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• I believe that when people invite their soul into the present moment - especially when their bodies and minds are encountering that experience of sudden and abrupt change - the wisdom of the soul allows them to experience the change differently. It literally re-contextualizes the change itself and we have a deeper, richer, more profound understanding of what is really going on.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, People, Profound

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Giving, Literature, Moments

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Practice, Mindfulness

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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• Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

  Tara Brach

  Meditation, Helping, Moments

  "The stress of the holidays — and 2016 — may make this the perfect time to try meditation". www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2016.

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• What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.

  Roger Housden

  Thinking, Mind, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

  Roger Housden

  Body, Doorways, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sheep, Iron, Long

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

  Roger Housden

  Fall, Breathing, Hands

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

  Roger Housden

  Meaningful, Matter, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Keys

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.150, Penguin

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• Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Morality, Action

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

  James H. Austin

  Everyday, Messages, Moments

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.19, MIT Press

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

  John Keats

  Love, Crush, Men

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